welcome to "world news." tonight, breaking news. the sunday horror. the deadly shootings in the heartland. authorities racing to two locations. among them, a jewish community center, the site of a talent competition for teenagers. storm watch. the threat across several states tonight. possible tornadoes. wicked winds. the system already hitting with hail and darkened skies. >> we have seen nothing but green clouds. >> it split into two. >> you didn't see it touch but you seen it start to twirl. our extreme weather team on it all. the bear attack. the growing threat in one american suburb. the wife dragged by a bear in her own garage. tonight, how she broke free before being raced to the hospital. and hold your nose. why our horrible winter now means something else. an explosion of pollen. the nightmare allergy season arriving all at once. our medical team tonight with the new tools to fight it.

good evening. thanks for joining us here on a sunday night. and we do begin with that breaking news. an american suburb shattered by deadly shootings this sunday near kansas city in overland park, kansas. gunfire breaking out at two different locations. this jewish community center where there was to be a talent competition this sunday. and a nearby senior center. the suspect opening fire there, too. tonight, he's in custody. all afternoon, parents racing to see if their children are okay. we begin here with mara schiavocampo. >> reporter: on the eve of passover, two related shootings near kansas city, including one at a jewish community center. police say three are dead after that attack. a suspect has been taken into custody. >> it was really scary. i called my mom. she started crying, i started crying. >> reporter: the shootings began around 1:00 p.m. local time this

afternoon at the jewish community center in overland park, just as a teen talent competition was scheduled to begin. this video shows last year's finalists for the scholarship contest. which draws crowds of kids in search for the best high school singer. police say a man opened fire in the parking lot, killing two. concerned parents gathered at the center, which was immediately placed on lockdown. one tweet describing the tense moments. pray for the bnl board as we wait in a blocked off room of the jewish community center because shots have been fired. the shooter reportedly continued several blocks south to village shalom, an assisted living facility. before the suspect was taken into custody outside a nearby elementary school. the third fatality took place at the assisted living facility. police say those killed were two men and one woman and the gunman fired at five people in total using a shotgun and david, possibly also an assault rifle. >> a horrible story. we'll have more on "gma" tomorrow. mara, thank you. next to the developing headline involving the weather this evening.

more than 30 million people facing severe weather this evening. after a massive system already left its mark. in illinois, this is one family's back deck, covered with hail the size of golf balls. in michigan, a major cleanup. trees on top of cars. families spending their sunday cleaning up. this system is on the move. abc's gio benitez has the images coming in right now. >> reporter: overnight icy storms pounded parts of iowa with egg-sized hail. in michigan, winds bringing down massive trees and utility poles. >> it sounded like a tornado came through. just like this. >> reporter: people taking cover as the trees landed on homes and cars. >> hail start coming. trees started bending over. i took cover. >> reporter: and in wisconsin, water from the river rising up and flooding roads. incredibly, in denver yesterday, we saw temps in the 70s. but what a change today. it's in the 30s there with heavy snow falling overnight. across wyoming and colorado.

and while so many all around the country are enjoying the warm weather, cold air is expected to move in quickly all over again. and here in new york's central park, you can see so many people taking in the rays. but david, all along the east coast, they'll be bundling up by midweek. >> that's right. a big change coming. gio, thank you. i want to bring in wabc meteorologist jeff smith. he's been tracking this weather. a tornado watch tonight? >> we have the tornado watch for eastern parts of oklahoma. including the oklahoma city metro area. we're watching the entire orange zone on the map from the arklatex to missouri. if it's not a massive tornado outbreak, we'll have strong winds and large hail. which will cause damage. several lines of storms we're watching overnight tonight, which will eventually make their way into parts of tennessee, mississippi, and alabama in the wee hours of monday morning. >> gio alluded to this. a real temperature change this week. >> a big plunge. areas in the 70s and in some cases 80s, from raleigh up to new york, down to freezing by wednesday morning. behind the front. 20s north and west of there.

>> bundle up this week. jeff smith, great to have you with us here. next, a growing problem in part of this country. bears. tonight, a very close call. a wife checking on a noise in her garage, dragged by a bear several feet, narrowly escaping with her life. abc's linzie janis is in florida tonight. >> reporter: it was just getting dark last night when 45-year-old mom terri frana went out to investigate a noise in her garage. what followed was terrifying. >> the bear had my wife's head in its mouth and started to drag her towards the woods. >> reporter: frana managed to escape to the safety of her house where her husband called for help. >> she received bite wounds to the head. bite wounds to the arms, shoulder, and upper thigh area. >> reporter: she was released from a local hospital early this morning after receiving 30 staples to her head. the attack came just ten miles from where another woman was attacked while walking her dogs last december. >> a woman's i think been mauled by a bear.

she's bleeding she needs immediate help. >> reporter: in the last five years, complaints from florida residents have doubled to nearly 6,200 sightings a year. bear experts say always assume a bear will become aggressive. a lesson teenager abigail weatherall learned the hard way, while she was out jogging last summer. >> put me down on the ground and started, like, scraping me and clawing me. and i was thinking, oh, my gosh, this is it. i'm not going to live. >> reporter: and what was going through her mind? >> i heard you should play dead. that's what i did. >> reporter: abby was lucky to survive. police say everyone should know a few basic rules. >> bears actually eat dead animals. you don't want to play dead. if you see them, just make a lot of noise. never try to outrun them. they'll outrun you and outclimb you. >> reporter: today, wildlife teams are out trying to find the bear involved in this attack. if they find the right bear, it will be put down. linzie janis, abc news.

orlando. in california tonight, new clues about the crash between a fedex truck and a bus carrying high school students. investigators are looking at skid marks on the highway and they're revealing a lot about who might have tried to brake and who didn't. abc bazi kanani in california tonight. >> reporter: tonight, investigators releasing new details about the fiery head-on crash between a fedex semi and a bus full of college-bound students. ntsb officials say the fedex truck, heading south on the interstate, careened across a 53-foot median into oncoming traffic. the tour bus driver hit the brakes, skidding for 145 feet then swerved trying to avoid the truck. investigators say there was no evidence that the truck driver tried to brake. no skid marks. no evidence that the fire started before impact. officials are still interviewing students who escaped the burning bus. their statements will be key to helping to determine the cause.

>> i was in the front, right behind the driver. i had a clear view of the truck. it was in perfect condition. the driver must have lost control or something. >> reporter: we're learning several of the ten people killed were ejected. the brand-new bus had seat belts on it. but students say they were not wearing them. >> there's clearly an issue about the requirement for seat belts on buses. >> reporter: another concern, the windows on the bus. did the passengers know all were designed to be emergency exits? >> we have to see what the actual procedures were to get out and how they were labeled. so that's part of what we'll be looking at. >> reporter: the final report will take months to conclude. it will likely include safety recommendations. hoping lessons learned from this crash will save lives down the road. investigators were able to recover a black box-like module from the bus. the one of the semi truck was destroyed. they also say neither of the drivers had been working a very long shift. david? now to the search for the missing flight.

five weeks ago this weekend vanishing. this evening, something else vanished, too. the pings. while authorities believe the underwater signals were the real thing, they now fear the batteries have likely run out. tonight, more than two dozen ships and aircraft scouring the region of the indian ocean for debris. they'll also turn to a new piece of underwater technology. it's a bluefin submersible, a drone they'll send to the ocean floor. does this mean we're looking at months, perhaps longer? i want to bring in our aviation consultant, john nance, a veteran pilot himself. no pings since last week. 37 days. is it believed that the batteries are wiped out? >> yes, if not wiped out, so weak, we can't hear them. but what's important, david, is they got four excellent triangulations on the ocean floor. and that's where, when they put this torpedo-like thing in, the bluefin 21, that's where it will start searching, in the middle of that triangulation. >> you bring up the submersible. it will scan an area the size of los angeles.

a monumental task. how long can it stay down there? >> about 16 hour on station. it takes two hours to go down, two to come back. the total time is 20 hours they can work it. they have to have it go very slowly over the central area and kind of work out. eventually, they'll map everything down there. >> only when it gets to the surface do they know if it picked up anything? >> yes, this thing does not transmit to the surface. it has to physically come back up for them to pull the recorder and the chips and take a look at all the data they've got. same thing with the photographic part. >> john nance with us tonight, thank you. a raging fire in the chilean city of valparaiso. it began in the forests on the hilltops that surround that ski. and then jumping from rooftop to rooftop. at least 16 people have been killed. some 10,000 evacuated. air so thick, it's difficult to breathe. this evening, the fire now mostly contained. more than 500 homes destroyed. to ukraine next. the white house watching closely. the conflict takes a violent turn this weekend. masked men, many of them armed,

on the move in several cities, taking over government buildings. tonight, the ukrainian government announcing a deadline for them to retreat. and the u.s. weighing new sanctions against russia. alex marquardt with the dramatic pictures from ukraine. >> reporter: growing chaos, as tonight the drum beats of war get louder. clashes between pro and anti-russian sides. government buildings seized. sweeping eastern ukraine. today we saw former ukrainian soldiers who have switched sides. outside this town, now entirely under pro-russian control. there's no sign of the ukrainian authorities here. the police station is seized. they're building up the barricades. the large crowd assembled to call for a referendum. to determine their future. ukraine's president has warned he'll launch a full-scale operation to stop this fresh unrest that he and the u.s. say russia is behind. >> it's professional, it's coordinated. there's nothing grassroots

seeming about it. >> reporter: the white house says more harsh sanctions on russia could come in the next few days. as satellite photos reveal a huge russian military buildup along the border with ukraine. ukraine's president says the protesters occupying those government buildings have until tomorrow morning to put down the guns and leave. a threat russia called criminal. the fear now is that a crackdown by ukraine could provoke a russian invasion. david? >> alex, thank you. and from the vatican this evening. a surprise from pope francis on this palm sunday. his words were not scripted. and his message? here's abc's jeffrey kofman. >> reporter: for a pope who never stops surprising his followers, palm sunday was no exception. pope francis ignored his prepared homily and in an extraordinary departure from tradition, spoke entirely off the cuff. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: on this day that commemorates jesus' entry into jerusalem, he called on people including himself to look into their hearts to see how they are

living their lives. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: but the 77-year-old pope, who is known for his sunny disposition, was noticeably tired today, pausing frequently to catch his breath. he has functioned with just one lung since he was a teenager in argentina, when his other lung was removed because of an infection. but doctors say that as long as he's healthy, that should not affect him. and there was certainly no sign that a little fatigue is dampening his passion. he delighted worshippers in st. peter's square when he hopped off his popemobile to pose for selfies with young people in the crowd. jeffrey kofman, abc news, london. >> jeffrey, thank you. and to the royal tea leaves tonight. the royal family with a sort of response to all that talk we reported on here last night to a possible clue there prince william. he told a woman who gave him a shawl for baby george that she may need to make another one sometime. many asking if a royal baby was

on the way. today, william and duchess kate taking a ride in the jet boat. zigzagging through narrow canyons. later, they went wine-tasting. kate right there with a glass of red wine in her hand. some say a more powerful clue about the future. perhaps what her husband suggested might the premature. still much more ahead on this sunday night. from the polar vortex to the pollen vortex. the major blast of pollen around this country. doctors say brace for an awful allergy season. and tonight right here, the new tools to fight it. and then take a close look at the sign this man is sitting behind. it reads i am a bully. why a judge forced this man to sit for hours on this sunday. what he did beforehand. let's see what you got. rv -- covered. why would you pay for a hotel? i never do. motorcycles -- check. atv. i ride those. do you? no. boat. ahoy, mateys. house? hello, dear.

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new ways to fight it tonight. >> reporter: wicked winter is over. now, sinister spring. sneezing and wheezing. coughing and watery eyes. it's hit fast and hard. and this season might be one of the worst ever for allergies. >> it's been pretty bad already. so i'm definitely not looking forward to the spring and summer ahead. it's going to be a rough one. >> reporter: when a brutal winter lasts so long, once the warm temps arrive, everything blooms at once. sending allergens into the air. a perfect storm of misery. >> i feel very stuffed up. i feel like hazy, eyes watery, sore throat. it's a horrible feeling. >> reporter: tree pollen counts are soaring this weekend. but look at the more extreme levels. orange and red in texas and to the east, south carolina up to virginia. here are some basics that might help. simple saline nasal spray. keep your home and car windows closed. that reduces the amount of pollen coming in.

and remember to shower before bed to rinse the pollen out of your hair. >> and dr. jennifer ashton with us now. great advice on the shower. get it out of your hair before it hits the pillow. this pollen vortex. the real deal after a long winter? >> absolutely. long winter, short spring, everything is hitting at once. >> and when it hits, most people turn to the anti-histamines. many doctors talking about a multilayered approach. >> anti-histamines are great. but we have other tools in our arsenal. a new kid on the block this year. prescription medication known as oralair works almost like a vaccine against pollen. then the medication called montelukast, sold under the name of singulair. reduces inflammation. very effective. and steroid sprays. they cut inflammation. they're now available over the counter. the key is if you suffer from allergies and you're on one, ask your doctor about adding multiple attacks here. >> multipronged attacks. you said earlier, if you're not feeling the symptoms yet, perhaps jump on it now to get ahead of it. >> that's the key. if you're like you and me, you know you're going to get

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our "instant index." what's trending here on a sunday night. and i mentioned the public shaming of man a judge decided was a big bully in ohio. authorities say the man did and said some awful things to a family with three disabled children over the years. so for five hours today, 62-year-old edmund had to sit near a busy street corner with that sign reading i'm a bully. those worded ordered by a judge. within minutes, drivers sending a strong message. he'll also have to do 15 days in jail. now to the sister act. that surprised and whipped up a frenzy at the coachella music festival in california. as if you couldn't tell, that's

beyonce who hopped on to the stage to shake it up a little bit with her sister, solange. the crowd stunned. beyonce kicking it up a notch. husband jay z making a cameo on another stage of his own. your reaction to the wheel of fortune moment. all the letters revealed but the contestant didn't get it right. here's what happened. >> solve. >> that would be a good idea. >> mythological hero acheless. >> cue the buzzer. the indiana university student mispronounced achilles. missing out on the chance to win $1 million, a car, a trip to london. many of you tweeting last night, garrick saying you had to see the whole show. he was a disaster. felt sorry for him until the third fail. another said he loses over a million because he didn't pronounce the word that he uncovered correctly? that's crazy. brad said you must pronounce the puzzle correctly or you're unfortunately wrong. #gamerules. when we come back who could forget that play on the field, right there, number 22, the little one in front of the pack. what we learned about him

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but it's his victory off the field proving he's america strong. who could forget him? number 22, just 7 years old. >> at the 30! >> reporter: little jack hoffman running 69 yards for the score for his favorite team, nebraska. >> hoffman, scoring for the red team! >> reporter: lifted by that team right into our hearts. that little nebraska fan diagnosed with brain cancer at the age of 5. but during his fight, he was given that chance to lead his favorite team on to the field. but off the field, we learned of another victory. after 60 grueling weeks of chemotherapy, jack's cancer in remission. >> very happy. >> so incredibly proud of him. he's been very brave along the way. >> reporter: that moment on the field becoming an internet sensation. tonight, more than 8.5 million views and counting. jack's family and friends forming a foundation called team jack, the big give. to help all children with pediatric brain cancer. what a year it's been. meeting the president.

a trading card in his honor. winning an espy for best moment in sports. >> i'm glad that you are all now on team jack. and i know with you we can't lose. thanks. >> reporter: so many on his team now. this weekend, he was back on the field. his family saying his appetite is back, his hair is growing back. he's back at practice. everyone excited to see him and to ask one more time about the big play. >> how did you know when to stop running when you went for the touchdown? >> my dad told me to just hit the fence. >> reporter: a little boy and his big play, fueling a much bigger win off the field. all of us here on team jack. diane back with another week of "world news" right here tomorrow night. good night.

next at 6:00, the downfire in san jose burns through an old tv station. we'll have a live report to tell you what happened. a look inside the damage caused by an east bay fire that severely damaged several businesses. more legal trouble for niner star aldon something i after getting arrested at a california away. abc7 news at 6:00 starts now. good evening and thank you for joining us, i'm ama daetz. right now firefighters are getting a handle on a fire in downtown san jose. this is a live look from our san jose bureau camera. there is still a little smoke hovering overhe treeline in the center of the screen. the fire started around 3:00 this afternoon in a former tv station at park avenue and south montgomery street.

nick smith is live with a look at the effort to put out this fire. reporter: i want you to see his fire hose. you can see that firefighters are still using a defensive approach. they are using those hoses to attack hot spots in that building structure fire. look at some video that we got from a viewer who gave us these dramatic flames. you can see this these pictures. these were taken by jacob who happened to be passing by. san jose firefighters continue to battle the blaze at that time at one time reached five alarms. this is in downtown san jose and was first reported at 3:00 p.m. this is a nonresidential building. about two blocks from the san jose cal trains station. this building once housed a local tv station and is across the street from a san jose fire department training center. fire captain reggie williams of the san jose fire department spoke with me minutes ago. >> this is a five-alarm fire.